Crosswalk is a web runtime that replaces the built in WebView used by Android. Crosswalk is based on Google Chromium. Why use Crosswalk and not the built in WebView? The built in WebView varies greatly with each Android OS version. I’ve run into many problems because of the differences between the two. When you use Crosswalk you can work with a consistent WebView across all Android OS versions. Besides that, it has better HTML5 support. Read this article for more reasons “Why use Crosswalk for Android Builds?”

The instructions for embedding Crosswalk in your application are based on ADT and they are complicated. Adding Crosswalk to Android Studio is much easier if you use the maven2 releases.

Here are steps for creating a new Android application in Android Studio and embedding Crosswalk.